I purchased one of those kits, it's on the right of the photo. The thing looked VERY Small once I had it up. In the end, I decided to raise more chickens than the two or so the kit recommended. So, I started literally throwing down...

Here is an anecdote of no small amusement:
Shortly after Johnson our Rooster was eaten by a bear I decided to look for a new rooster.(See "The Three Little Pigs (Except with Chickens) Story moved to Member Pages) Partly cause I missed him and...

Well, I decided I wanted to try and raise a flock of chickens. I needed to get a coop. I spent a lot of time looking around at the prefabricated coops and decided I could build one better and for less money. Well I have bumbled a little along the...

I have this old building on my property that once allegedly housed chickens. I am hoping to remodel it to use as a future chicken coop that may house about 3 egg layers. Though the building may look like a tear down to some, I do not want to tear...

CASA DE POLLO" -- Beautiful & Functional Dream Chicken Coop with attached Run
Welcome to my chicken coop: "Casa De Pollo"!
This is a very beautiful and very functional chicken coop with attached run that my husband made for me (along with...

I made this brooder with materials I had, only had to buy the wire. The original design had only the top area but then I added the lower to separate some of my smaller chicks that weren't growing as well. My bigger chicks didn't need the heat...

This is a recent renovation of our previous coop. We expanded the run to triple its original size which allowed for more shade and happier hens! Then we removed the "box" portion where the girls slept and nested. We built the new hen...

In early Spring 2014, we began with 6 pullets and the need of someplace to keep them safe.
So this is what I built over the course of 6 weeks in the garage. It has served us well over the last year and a half, but we did lose 3 hens (from free...

I am going through the thread (link to post #1 here) and copy/pasting all the relevant info to this page(the thread is currently over 200 pgs long... after just 20 some pages I was already sick of A.) reading a few posts and then having to hit...

Two first-timers left off sitting on a dozen eggs half-way through the deal. Eggs were cold but I put them in the incubator just in case there was a faint heart-beat.. To date, 5 healthy chicks,( three already adopted by one mother, 4 to hatch, 3...

Our coop has been a work in progress since we got our girls (and a few boys that snuck in there somehow). It is coming along nicely and starting to look finished.
Today we added the nesting boxes, hung feeders and water, installed a new...

So my girlfriend and I have been talking about chickens for a few weeks now so we decided to build a coop yesterday. We had picked up some A-Frame braces from a local granite counter top dealer that I had in the garage so we decided to modify...